English

fluorophenol

From fluoro- + phenol.

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to shine, glow light’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti

Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō ‘to appear’

Ancient Greek φαίνω ‘to clear’

French phène

Today it means

noun Any fluoro derivative of a phenol

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fluorophenol